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We Are R-Ladies @weare.rladies.org · 16d

A little bit of self-promotion, I @ivelasq3.bsky.social will be giving a talk on Positron for RStudio Users!

Hoping to share some perspectives, extensions, and other tips in case you're interested in exploring Positron.

Sign up here: www.meetup.com/rladies-gabo...

Simisani Nokulunga Ndaba @simisani.bsky.social · 20d

🚀 Curious about Positron, Posit’s new open-source IDE?

This session shows RStudio users the basics, what’s new, and how it fits your workflow with @ivelasq3.bsky.social (Posit, PBC)

#RStats #DataScience #Positron #rladies

Thursday 09 October, 11am CT | 6:00 PM CAT

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Positron for RStudio Users: A Gentle Introduction, Thu, Oct 9, 2025, 6:00 PM | Meetup

Curious about Positron, the new open-source data science IDE from Posit? This session will walk RStudio users through the basics of Positron, highlight familiar features, a

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Aug 21

topic modeling & the quest for the right K 🦄:

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Heather Froehlich @heatherfro.bsky.social · Aug 13

She's here and ready for your eyes! repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...

The whole volume, Text and Data Mining Literacy for Librarians, eds. Whitney Kramer, Evan Muzzel and Iliana Burgos, is headed to the printers and will be linked when its out. But for now enjoy this ACRL-approved preview

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Posit @posit.co · Aug 12

Ever wonder how an actuary becomes a data science educator? 🤔

Tune into the latest episode of The Test Set with @minecr.bsky.social. We discuss everything from her #RStats journey to her use of LLMs to give students feedback on their code.

Listen: thetestset.co, on Spotify, or Apple Podcasts

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Yani Bellini Saibene @yabellini.bsky.social · Aug 11

Some of the @ropensci.org ‘s people at #useR2025 #RStats 😄📦

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · Aug 7

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

Screencap of headline from linked article, reading:

He Had Dangerous Delusions. ChatGPT Admitted It Made Them Worse.
OpenAI’s chatbot self-reported it blurred line between fantasy and reality with man on autism spectrum. ‘Stakes are higher’ for vulnerable people, firm says.

Above the headline: Technology
Artificial Intelligence
Family & Tech: Julie Jargon
Below:
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Julie Jargon
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| Photographs by Tim Gruber for WSJ
July 20, 2025 7:00 am ET

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Jul 22

Just came across Antonio Vazquez Brust's book -- what a fantastic title!

Pablo Tiscornia @pablote.bsky.social · Jul 22

🔹 Tip R: “Ciencia de Datos para Gente Sociable”

Libro gratuito en español para quienes se inician en análisis de datos.

Ideal para Ciencias Sociales y educación.

bitsandbricks.github.io/ciencia_de_d...

¿Lo leíste ya? 📘 #rstats #DataScience #RecursosR

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Pablo Tiscornia @pablote.bsky.social · Jul 22

🔹 Tip R: “Ciencia de Datos para Gente Sociable”

Libro gratuito en español para quienes se inician en análisis de datos.

Ideal para Ciencias Sociales y educación.

bitsandbricks.github.io/ciencia_de_d...

¿Lo leíste ya? 📘 #rstats #DataScience #RecursosR

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David Keyes @dgkeyes.com · Jul 22

🎉 Big news! After 5+ years of consulting work under the R for the Rest of Us name, I'm launching Clarity Data Studio.

The name confusion was real – people thought we only did courses, not knowing about our consulting work building reports, websites, and more.

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Marc Keuschnigg @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social · May 13

We are hiring postdocs in Computational Social Science
📍SweCSS, Norrköping, Sweden
⏰Deadline June 3
🔗https://liu.se/en/work-at-liu/vacancies/26854
Please apply // help us spread the word

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Apr 21

it's 8:30 a.m., and I've already spoken Spanish, English, and Portuguese on my way to campus. bom dia!

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R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Apr 16

Episode 202 of the R Weekly Highlights Podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🚀 R 4.5.0 highlights @russhyde.bsky.social @jumpingrivers.com
🚰 plumber2 @thomasp85.com
🗒 Introducing chores @simonpcouch.com @posit.co

h/t @mike-thomas 🙏

#RStats #DataScience

Issue 2025-W16 Highlights

It's not every day that we get to dive into a brand new release of R, but we get to do just that in episode 202! We share our takes on the major new…

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Apr 9

in hindsight, I should've described it as LLM-powered text mining...

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Apr 7

My work on AI-powered text mining for the study of the energy transition was featured on the R Weekly podcast (!!!) Major thanks to @ivelasq3.bsky.social, @posit.co, and Edgar Ruiz

R-Podcast (Eric) @rpodcast.bsky.social · Apr 2

A podcasting achievement unlocked: Episode 200 of the R Weekly Highlights podcast is out! serve.podhome.fm/episodepage/...

🛒 Text analysis & prediction with {mall} @camlivio.bsky.social @posit.co
📊 Guide to gradients @jamesgoldie.dev

h/t @mike-thomas.bsky.social & Jon Calder 🙏

#RStats

Issue 2025-W14 Highlights

By some minor miracle (even on April Fools) the R Weekly Highlights podcast has made it to episode 200! We go "virtual" shopping for LLM-powered text…

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Apr 2

dataviz is my passion

a scatterplot of 500,000 points that is basically a black rectangle

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Apr 2

haaaaaaaa -- love this!

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econmaett @econmaett.github.io · Apr 1

Obviously #rstats

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Mar 25

Hey @mbacadero.bsky.social, I've described this step here: github.com/camlivio/Ene...

Energy_transition/Data_processing/UNCOP_conferences/COP_pdf_mining.R at main · camlivio/Energy_transition

Contribute to camlivio/Energy_transition development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Mar 25

thank YOU for the opportunity and the amazing feedback throughout the process!

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Mar 25

Shoutout to @ivelasq3.bsky.social and @posit.co for the opportunity to write a blog post about how I'm using `library(mall)` and integrating large language models into our energy security research! #textdata #LLM #energy #energysecurity #socialscience #datascience #NLProc

Posit @posit.co · Mar 25

Discover how the mall package simplifies LLM integration in R!

In @camlivio.bsky.social's guest post, she walks through how she uses mall to summarize dense PDF reports, extract key entities, and visualize the frequency of relevant terms, all with #RStats.

Read it here: posit.co/blog/mall-ai...

Illustration demonstrating how an AI-powered system gathers data from various documents and compiles it into a single, organized format, using the mall hex to represent the AI processing.

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Joey Stanley @joeystanley.com · Mar 12

I wrote a quick tutorial for a student on how to use to R to get Whisper to automatically transcribe your audio. I figured others might find it useful too. #linguistics joeystanley.com/blog/whisper/

Automated Transcription in R using Whisper – Joey Stanley

joeystanley.com

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Dec 18

Just learned that my 9-yo has been clicking no on all GDPR cookie banners because she thought it was some aggressive baker advertising everywhere, and “while cookies do enhance experiences, that seems like a lot of dessert and mom probably doesn’t want to buy them and we can just make them at home”

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Dec 18

Many events led me to become a sociolinguist, with Labov's work — like for every linguist I know — being an immeasurable influence. He worked as an industrial chemist before becoming a linguist, reminding me always to keep learning, many and different things. RIP, William Labov.

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Dec 6

interesting. this made me think that AI-generated text is more likely to conform to Haspelmath’s maxim of economy but not to the maxim of extravagance.

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Camila Livio @camlivio.bsky.social · Dec 2

yep -- all the time. currently working on the concept/meaning of *energy transition* across time.